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The Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Lindsey and Stevie in Their Own Words

With the long-awaited reissue of their Buckingham Nicks album, we’re looking back at rock’s most legendary exes — the good, the bad, the blue-green colors flashin’

It all started with “California Dreamin,’” and just like in the song, there was a church. Only it was in the Bay Area, not New York, and no one got on their knees and pretended to pray. Instead, a bunch of teens gathered there for a youth group social, where they’d play music on Wednesday nights. A dark-haired, blue-eyed junior from the nearby Menlo-Atherton High School sat down at the piano and played the Mamas and the Papas’ 1965 counterculture anthem. When a blonde senior joined him for the harmonies — becoming the Michelle Phillips to his John Phillips — they locked eyes. “I thought he was darling,” she’d later say.

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham wouldn’t see each other for another two years, when she joined his band, Fritz. A few years later, they departed to form the duo Buckingham Nicks, began dating, and got an invitation to join Fleetwood Mac, where they became rock stars who never had to look at another price tag. And though their relationship didn’t last, it resulted in some of the greatest rock songs ever written about heartbreak and pain, classics that generation after generation continue to hold dearly. 

Now, 60 years after that first meeting, the frozen love has thawed. Buckingham and Nicks are reissuing their highly underrated 1973 self-titled album, which has been out of print for decades. In honor of its Sept. 19 release, we’re looking back at some of the best quotes through the years from rock’s most legendary exes — the good, the bad, the blue-green colors flashin’. We’ll never break the chain.

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